‘AMERICA IS A NATION OF PORCHES’: US PAVILION CELEBRATES ‘PORCHNESS’ AT VENICE BIENNALE

designboom | 05.08.2025

“‘PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity’ opens in Venice

For the US Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, a team of architects explores the American porch. As visitors approach the pavilion, titled PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the familiar neoclassical form of the 1930 American Palladian-style building is softened and opened up by timber columns and a welcoming, shaded platform. Inside and out, it unfurls as a spatial metaphor and shared memory, offering visitors a place to linger…”

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